Market Pulse — 14 October 2026

Benchmarks

Closing levels, 14 Oct 2026 · Source: NSE / BSE

Sectoral scorecard

NSE sectoral indices, ranked best to worst

Movers

Nifty 50 constituents · NSE feed stamped 14-Oct-2026 16:00:00

NSE's gainers feed listed 16 advancing Nifty 50 names, below its 20-row cap, so 34 of the 50 fell or were unchanged; the losers feed returned exactly 20 rows and is capped, so no decline count is stated. Market-wide advance/decline counts are omitted because the closing wraps disagreed materially with one another. All mover figures are from the NSE 16:00 feed; a broker ticker differed on Bajaj Finserv and Cipla and was not used. Midcap and smallcap mover tables are omitted again: NSE's constituent endpoint has returned 404 for eight consecutive runs and no wrap carried a dated 14 October list.

Institutional flows

FII/FPI and DII activity in the cash segment

Cash-market figures for 14 Oct 2026, from NSE. Provisional exchange data.

Corporate & macro desk

What moved the tape and what the IR desks were announcing

• Wholesale inflation jumped to 11.39% in September — Up from 9.92% in August and above the Reuters poll, on higher fuel, food and manufactured-product prices. The print landed during the session, lifted bond yields and weighed on rate-sensitive autos, private banks and metals.
• The print lands three sessions after the RBI raised rates — The Monetary Policy Committee lifted the repo rate 25 basis points to 5.50% on 7 October and shifted its stance to calibrated tightening, projecting FY27 CPI inflation at 5.2% and GDP growth at 7.1%. The October minutes are due 21 October.
• US September CPI came in hot after the Indian close — Headline CPI rose 0.6% on the month and 3.7% year on year against a 3.6% consensus; core rose 2.6%. Wall Street fell, with the Nasdaq Composite down 1.88% and S&P 500 information technology off 3.00%, and the 10-year Treasury yield above 5.27%.
• Rupee firmed 19 paise to 95.17 on RBI intervention — PTI reported the central bank acting to ease near-term dollar demand and curb speculative positioning, helped by a softer dollar and lower US yields. Weak domestic equities capped the gain.
• Brent held above $106 on Middle East supply risk — Crude rose after a fire at a Saudi Aramco building in Dhahran, closing the Indian session up 0.64% at $106.37 a barrel. Sustained strength raises India's import bill and complicates the inflation path.
• Foreign selling reached a thirteenth consecutive session — FPIs sold Rs 1,305 crore on 13 October, with year-to-date outflows at a record $32.52 billion on HDFC Sky's count, before a further Rs 1,857.44 crore of net cash-segment selling on 14 October. Domestic institutions absorbed both days.
• Tata Elxsi rose on results; Zydus fell on a USFDA inspection — Tata Elxsi gained 5.73% after higher quarterly profit led by its transportation and media businesses. Zydus Lifesciences declined after the US regulator closed an inspection of its Ahmedabad plant with five observations.

Corporate actions ahead

Every corporate action NSE listed as going ex between 15 October and 14 November — seven in total, all published here · Source: NSE

Board meetings & results calendar

Scheduled board meetings — the IR calendar for the days ahead

IPOs open now

Mainboard issues that were open for bidding during the 14 October session. GMP from ipoji.com — HD Fire Protect as at 14 Oct, 9:30 AM IST; Fusion CX as at 14 Oct, 10:15 AM IST. Subscription totals from ipowatch.in, last updated 17:41. Issue terms cross-checked against NSE's own filings.

Final day to bid on 15 Oct: HD Fire Protect.

Grey-market premium (GMP) is an unofficial, unregulated indicator quoted outside the exchanges. It is not exchange data, carries no regulatory standing and routinely diverges between trackers and from the eventual listing price; it is published here for awareness only. The whole GMP column is taken from a single source rather than blended — investorgain's figures at roughly the same time were Rs 91 and Rs 33.50. ipowatch's subscription stamp carries a time but no calendar date; read as the 14 October close, and consistent with ipoji's lower intra-session readings of 4.76x and 0.28x earlier that day. Issue size is the rupee figure, on which ipoji and investorgain agree for both issues; NSE's filed share count is lower than the trackers' and for HD Fire Protect equals the issue exactly net of the anchor book, so the two are measuring different things. A blank cell means not sourced, not zero. Four further mainboard issues opened on 15 October, the day after this session, and so are not given rows here: Sahajanand Medical Technologies (Rs 327–344), Bonfiglioli Transmissions (Rs 558–586), Zetwerk Manufacturing Businesses (Rs 143–151) and Tonbo Imaging India (Rs 665–700), all bidding 15–19 October.

Economic calendar

Data releases and policy events in the days ahead

Commodities, currency & global

The three US indices are the 14 October close — the same calendar day as the Indian session, since Wall Street shuts at about 2:00 AM IST. Retail 24K and 22K gold are national reference rates from Bajaj Broking, stamped 14 October, 8:00 AM IST; retail quotes vary by city and by aggregator, and city 24K rates ran marginally higher. Silver is published as the MCX December contract rather than a retail rate because retail quotes for the day diverged far too widely to be useful, from about Rs 2.17 lakh to Rs 2.57 lakh per kg. Rupee and Brent levels are the PTI close; Brent is the December contract. India VIX appears under Benchmarks.